SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING CLOUD SERVICES INTO THE CUSTOMER PREMISE

摘要

A cloud extension agent can be provided on a customer premise for interfacing, via an outbound secure connection, cloud based services. The cloud extension agent can reach the cloud based services through existing firewall infrastructure, thereby providing simple, secure deployment. Furthermore, the secure connection can enable substantially real-time communication with a cloud service to provide web-based, substantially real time control or management of resources on the customer premises via the cloud extension agent.

主权项

1. A method for providing cloud-based network management services comprising:
providing at least one cloud extension agent that facilitates cloud-based management of corporate computing resources by execution on one or more computers that are part of a corporate network, the corporate network being separated from the Internet by at least one firewall, the firewall operating independently of the cloud extension agent, wherein each cloud extension agent is configured to:
initiate a secure network connection to a cloud-based management platform, which comprises at least one remote data center, outbound through the firewall over the Internet using a standard internet protocol,gather predetermined status information, from one or more local servers on the corporate network,report the predetermined status information to the cloud-based management platform via the secure network connection,receive, from the cloud-based management platform via the secure network connection, a set of instructions for management of the-one or more local servers, andmake changes to the configuration of the one or more local servers in response to the set of instructions; providing to an administrator, as part of the cloud-based management platform, a web-based portal that allows the administrator to request configuration changes to the one or more local servers and to select the type of status information that defines the predetermined status information; and creating, in response to configuration changes initiated via the web-based portal, the set of instructions to be sent to the at least one cloud extension agent via the secure network connection.